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Satire in Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

Question 9 • DCSS British Literature 12 CR 24-25

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.

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that a woman would be willing to pay her landlord rent
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that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell
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that a woman would be willing to keep the children she bears
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that a woman would be willing to take over her landlord’s business
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